America

News tagged with America on Mining Top News

Controller of FMC Technologies; Jay A. Nutt

August 1st, 2008
Controller of FMC Technologies; Jay A. Nutt

FMC Technologies, Inc. has recently been reported to have announced today that Jay A. Nutt has been named Controller. Mr. Nutt, who currently serves as Assistant Corporate Controller of FMC Technologies, will assume his new position effective August 1.
Mr. Nutt began his career with FMC Corporation in 1987. During his 21-year career he has progressed [...]

CONSOL Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems Announce Funding of Front-End Engineering Design Package for West Virginia Coal Gasification Project

July 28th, 2008
CONSOL Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems Announce Funding of Front-End Engineering Design Package for West Virginia Coal Gasification Project

CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., a global industrial gasification company, intend to develop through a joint venture their first U.S. coal gasification and liquefaction plant to be located in West Virginia. CONSOL (through its subsidiary Terra Firma Company) and SES have formed Northern Appalachia Fuel [...]

Michael R. D’Appolonia Appointed to Westmoreland Board of Directors

July 23rd, 2008
Michael R. D’Appolonia Appointed to Westmoreland Board of Directors

Westmoreland Coal Company announced it has increased the size of the Company’s Board of Directors from five to six and appointed Michael R. D’Appolonia to its Board by unanimous consent effective today.
Mr. D’Appolonia is currently Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kinetics Systems, Inc., an international specialty mechanical contracting company with over 2,000 employees [...]

ArcelorMittal Announces Acquisition of Concept Group

July 21st, 2008
ArcelorMittal Announces Acquisition of Concept Group

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Concept Group (“Concept”).
Concept, located in southern West Virginia and adjacent to the recently acquired Mid Vol Coal Group in the Central Appalachian Coal Basin, produced 0.8 million tons of metallurgical coking coal in 2007 and [...]

Latrobe Specialty Steel Announces End of Labor Dispute

July 21st, 2008
Latrobe Specialty Steel Announces End of Labor Dispute

Latrobe Specialty Steel welcomes the news that Local 1537 of the United Steelworkers approved today the collective bargaining agreement negotiated Friday evening and that the twelve-week work stoppage is ending.
“I know that I speak for every Latrobe Specialty Steel employee when I say that we appreciate the return of our hourly colleagues. We have reached [...]

Crude oil prices lift Schlumberger’s profit by 13 percent

July 21st, 2008
Crude oil prices lift Schlumberger’s profit by 13 percent

Oilfield services provider Schlumberger Ltd. reporting a nearly 13 percent jump in profit driven by robust spending among customers searching for new sources of crude and natural gas. Unless the global economy goes into the tank, Schlumberger said it expects continued brisk spending on exploration and production as energy companies try to benefit from high [...]

Precision Drilling Trust’s Cash distribution has been approved

July 21st, 2008
Precision Drilling Trust’s Cash distribution has been approved

Precision Drilling Trust’s released a report that its cash distribution has been approved by the board of trustees of $0.13 per trust unit of Precision. The distribution will be payable on August 15, 2008 to unitholders of record on July 31, 2008. The ex-distribution date is July 29, 2008. Holders of Class B limited partnership [...]

Severstal Extends Tender Offer for Shares of Esmark Incorporated

July 20th, 2008
Severstal Extends Tender Offer for Shares of Esmark Incorporated

OAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading metals and mining companies, announced that it has extended the expiration date for its tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Esmark Incorporated (Nasdaq: ESMK; “Esmark”), at an offer price of $19.25 per share, to 10:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Monday, August 4, 2008.
The tender offer [...]

GeoGlobal on its disclosure requirements

July 20th, 2008
GeoGlobal on its disclosure requirements

GeoGlobal Resources Inc told the press that on June 10, 2008 and June 27, 2008, respectively, it filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. Concurrently, it [...]

GeoGlobal Resources Inc to announce its Disclosure Requirements

July 19th, 2008
GeoGlobal Resources Inc to announce its Disclosure Requirements

GeoGlobal Resources Inc told the press on June 10th that it filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. Concurrently, it filed its audited annual financial statements [...]